Ant Control
Ant Control That
Kills the Colony
Serving Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa, Queen Creek, San Tan Valley, Scottsdale, and Tempe. $99 initial visit, then ongoing protection from $35/mo with free re-services.
Licensed · AZ Office of Pest Management
Free re-service between visits
Prices published — no mystery quotes
Same-day service when booked by 1pm
Here's the thing nobody tells you at the hardware store: spraying an ant trail often makes the problem worse. Several Arizona species — odorous house ants especially — respond to repellent sprays by budding, splitting one colony into several and scattering them through your walls. You killed two hundred workers and created three new nests.
The fix is to stop fighting the trail and start fighting the colony. Baiting works because the workers do the dirty work for you — they carry slow-acting bait back to the nest, feed it to the larvae and the queens, and the colony collapses from the inside. It takes a little longer than the satisfying spray. It also actually ends.
NEARPEST is licensed by the Arizona Office of Pest Management. We identify the species first, because the right treatment for fire ants is the wrong one for carpenter ants — then we hit the colony where it lives.
What we do
Species ID first
Odorous house ants, southern fire ants, harvester ants, carpenter ants, pavement ants — the East Valley has all of them, and they don't respond to the same treatments.
Baiting over blasting
Slow-acting baits ride worker trails straight back to the queens. That's how you kill a colony instead of splitting it into three.
Nest and mound treatment
For fire ants and harvester ants, we treat mounds and nest sites directly — the species that sting get dealt with at the source.
Free re-service
Ants trail back before your next scheduled visit? We come back out free. That's standard on every NEARPEST plan.
The ants you're actually fighting in Arizona
Odorous house ants are the tiny ones trailing across your kitchen counter — crush one and you'll smell something like rotten coconut. They're the classic budding species: spray the trail and the colony fractures and multiplies. Southern fire ants are the ones that turn a backyard into a hazard; their stings burn, and they swarm anything that disturbs the mound. Both are everywhere in the East Valley.
Harvester ants build those big bare-dirt craters in desert landscaping and deliver one of the most painful stings of any ant in the country. Carpenter ants tunnel into damp or damaged wood — they don't eat it like termites, but they'll excavate it. Pavement ants work the cracks in your driveway and slab.
Five species, five different playbooks. That's why a one-spray-fits-all approach keeps failing, and why we start every ant job with identification.
How NEARPEST gets rid of ants for good
Your $99 initial visit starts with finding the trails, the entry points, and where possible the nests themselves. Then we deploy the right tool per species: non-repellent products and baits for budding ants so workers ferry the active ingredient home, direct mound treatment for fire ants and harvesters, and moisture-source correction advice for carpenter ants.
Ant pressure in the desert never really stops — colonies forage harder every time temperatures swing or irrigation changes. Ongoing plans from $35/mo keep a treated perimeter between their world and your kitchen, and re-services between visits are always free.
Call (480) 555-0199. Tell us what the ants look like and where you're seeing them, and we'll take it from there.
Plans & pricing
Covered on a plan, priced in public.
Shield
Every 90 days
$35/mo
$105 billed quarterly
Year-round coverage for the common desert pests.
Start with ShieldShield+
Every 60 days
$45/mo
$90 billed every 2 months
Our scorpion plan. Bi-monthly visits tuned to AZ scorpion pressure.
Start with Shield+Max
Monthly
$59/mo
$59 billed monthly
Maximum pressure control — monthly visits plus seasonal mosquito.
Start with Max$99 initial visit — One-time initial visit — full interior + exterior knockdown service. Often discounted with an annual plan.
Questions, answered
Why do the ants keep coming back after I spray?
Store-bought repellent sprays kill the workers you can see and panic the colony you can't. Species like odorous house ants respond by budding — splitting into multiple colonies. Baiting that reaches the queens is what actually ends it.
Are fire ants in Arizona dangerous?
Southern fire ants sting, and they sting in numbers when a mound is disturbed. For kids, pets, and anyone with sting allergies, a mound in the yard is worth treating promptly — we treat mounds directly at the source.
Do carpenter ants mean I have wood damage?
They mean you have moist or vulnerable wood somewhere — carpenter ants excavate damp wood to nest in rather than eating it. We treat the ants and point out the moisture problem so the nest site doesn't reload.
How long does ant baiting take to work?
Workers usually swarm the bait within hours, and colonies typically collapse over days to a couple of weeks depending on size and species. Seeing more ants right after treatment is normal — that's the bait doing its job.
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Call now or book online. If pests show up between visits, so do we — free.